Friday, 10 Feb 2012 By: Scott Cohn Senior Correspondent, CNBC In an unusual move, attorneys for accused Ponzi mastermind Allen Stanford have issued a subpoena to compel the attorney for the prosecution's star witness to testify, CNBC has learned. David Finn, the attorney for former Chief Financial Officer James Davis, tells CNBC that United States Marshalls served the subpoena at his office Friday. Davis, who was also Stanford's college roommate, wrapped up roughly four days of testimony...Read Full Story
A prosecutor introduced a$330 million promissory note sealed by R. Allen Stanford asevidence at his crook hearing that the banker secretlyborrowed allowance from his bank to erect a intemperate “Stanford Worldin Antigua” and captivate abounding new clients.
“Rich people do not obtain tender really easily,” Stanfordsaid in an undated video shave shown to his jury yesterday inHouston sovereign court. “They have to return literally blownaway, adage ‘I have a certainty and a trust that we will...Read Full Story
By Terri Langford Thursday, February 9, 2012 The day after Paul Ashe took a post as a bank regulator in Antigua, R. Allen Stanford called him with an offer for a job that would make him "a very happy man" for the rest of his life, Ashe testified Thursday in Stanford's fraud trial. Ashe, supervisor of international banks for Antigua's Financial Services Regulatory Commission, indicated he quickly ended the conversation with Stanford in February 2008, did not know what job Stanford was...Read Full Story
By JORDAN BLUM Capitol news bureau February 09, 2012 U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy plans to file legislation Thursday to allow investors of R. Allen Stanford to individually opt out of a federal lawsuit for one-time buyouts of up to $500,000. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in December against the Securities Investment Protection Corp. trying to force it to pay up to $500,000 each in lost money to investors with Stanford. The Houston businessman is alleged to have run a Ponzi...Read Full Story
By Murray Waas Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:54am IST REUTERS - In 2009, federal investigators finally arrested Houston financier R. Allen Stanford. For twenty years, Stanford allegedly had run a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. U.S. authorities had been nosing around Stanford's empire for longer than a decade but hesitated to open a full-blown probe. As Stanford's trial began this week, one question left unanswered was: How did he keep authorities at...Read Full Story
Stanford Fraud Case Puts Old Friends at Odds Allen Stanford's former college roommate James Davis is now the chief prosecution witness against him. Davis will testify that he witnessed and participated in Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme, the New York Times reports.
HOUSTON -- With testimony about bribes, blood oaths, faked profits and secret Swiss bank accounts, the ongoing fraud trial of jailed and former jet setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford has had its share of drama. And many of the details about ...
Funeral services for Allen Leon Stanford, age 77 of Kemp, Texas will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at the Anderson Clayton Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Kemp. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in ...
HOUSTON — On the last day of his testimony, R. Allen Stanford’s former moneyman James Davis pointed a shaking finger at his one-time boss and said that if anyone wanted proof of the crimes he had been outlining, all he had to do was “follow the money ...
R. Allen Stanford (center), indicted on 21 counts of conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice appears at the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse Thursday, June 25, 2009, in Houston. An artist rendering shows Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, second from ...
Allen Stanford, KCN, is a billionaire financier of American heritage and Antiguan-Barbudan citizenship. He is also well known as both a sponsor of professional sports and as a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) â A federal judge issued an order Thursday lifting a freeze on about 12,000 investor accounts with Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford that were valued at $250,000 or less as of Feb. 28, at the request of the court-appointed ...